Improvement in shifting carriage-tops



O. E, MALL'ORY.

Shifting Rail for Carriage. No. 109,528. Patented Nov. 22, 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 109,528, dated November 22,1870.

IMPROVEMENT m SHIFTLNG cARmAeE-ToPs.

The Schedule referred to ln'these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatI, ORSON E. MALLORY, of Batavia, in the county of Genesee and State of'eNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shifting Carriage-Tops; and I do lierebysleclai'e the following to be a full and correct description of r the same, sufficient toenable others skilled inthc art towhich my invention appertains to full y understand and construct the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing which makes part of this speccificatiomand in wliicli Figure- 1 is a side elevation illustrating myimprorement;

iFigures 2 and 3 are plan views of I the same; and Figure 4 is a side elevation of a buggy or carriageseat with my improvement attached.-

Li'ke letters of reference indicatelike parts in the several figures. My invention is an improvement on that for which Letters Patent were granted me June 28, 1870, and.

August 30, 1870; and

It consists in-a cylinder, provided with aslot, in

which slides a rod sustaininglhe frame of the top,

each side of the seat being provided with such .a cylinder, which is attached to the bearings of the seat.

In the drawing A is the cylinder, provided on its upper side or surtime with a slot, a. r

This cylinder may be attached to the bearings of the seat, as shown at fig. 4, or the cylinder may itself form the side railing of the seat.

In this cylinder slides'a rod, B, havingat its upper surface a head, I), which fits into the slot a.

At each end of the rod Bis a projection for the attachmeut of the top;-one,' 0', being at the front, and

the other, (I, at the rear end of the rod.

The cylinder A may be permanently attached to the'bearings of the seat, or it may be maderemovable therefrom, or else be made a part of the seat itself, as above described. In either case the top is shifted by merely sliding the rod B-backward or forward in cylinder A, the projection c and head 1) moving in the slot a and steadying the top.

This sliding may beeifecte'd by means of a lever and links, as shown in my ibrmer patents, or in any other suitable way, and the extent of the movement of rod 13 within the cylinder A may be limited to any [top over the seat, asherein set forth.

2. The combination of the slotted cylinderA a with the rod B, provided with head b and bearings c d,

, substantially as and for the purpose described.

0. E. MALLORY;

\Vitnesses':

HARVEY Hutrcnms, Wnnnns T. Buss. 

